Lili Dujourie
©image: ICC Archive
° 1941
Born in Roeselare (BE), lives in Lovendegem (BE).
Lili Dujourie (° 1941) studies both painting and sculpture at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, but without graduating. Dujourie is both a solitary and a seminal figure in Belgian art since the late sixties. Her work is rich in variation – of materials and techniques, of references to different periods in art history – but also remarkably consistent in its insistence on the emotional and cerebral precision that is particular to visual art.
In the late sixties and early seventies Dujourie engages mostly with recent and contemporary American art (abstract, minimal, conceptual), which is then the dominant force in the world of art, and formulates a critical reflection on it.
The 17 videos Dujourie made in 1972–1981 are another key part of her oeuvre. The series begins with the five versions of Hommage à… (1972), which establishes Dujourie as a proponent of both feminist and feminine aesthetics. In the seventies she also works with collages: sometimes using images from magazines, sometimes torn pieces of coloured paper.
From the early eighties onwards Dujourie works with a progression of distinct and sometimes very demanding materials: velvet, marble, lead, plaster, ceramics, steel, papier mâché etc. The Flemish ‘primitives’ of the fifteenth century and the baroque painters of the seventeenth century are an important inspiration for her ‘wall sculptures’, featuring carefully constructed cascades of velvet drapery in strong colours.
Media
>Lili Dujourie, ICC, 1970's
>Lili Dujourie, Hommage à ... V, 1972.Video.
>Lili Dujourie, Hommage à ... IV, 1972.Video.
>Lili Dujourie, Hommage à ... II, 1972.Video.
>Lili Dujourie, Amerikaans Imperialisme [American Imperialism], 1972.Installation.
>Lili Dujourie, Hommage à ... III, 1972.Video, video, 00:37:02.
>Lili Dujourie, Hommage à ... I, 1972.Video, 00:21:18.
>Lili Dujourie, Madrigaal [Madrigal], 1975.Video, dvd, 00:06:05.
>Lili Dujourie, Stilleven, 1976.Collage, collage on paper, 30 x 18.5 cm.
>Lili Dujourie, Stilleven, 1976.Collage, collage on paper, 30.3 x 24 cm.
>Lili Dujourie, Effen spiegel van een stille stroom, 1976.Video, 00:13:43.
>Lili Dujourie, Stilleven [Still Life], 1976.Collage, collage on paper, 4 x ( 390 X 300 mm).
>Lili Dujourie, Enjambement [Enjambment], 1976.Video, 00:20:51.
>Lili Dujourie, Untitled, 1977.Photography, 18 x 24 cm (x 6).
>Lili Dujourie, Lili Dujourie 'Uittreksels uit video's 1972-1978/Extraits de vidéos 1972-1978/Excerpts from videos 1972-1978/Exzerpten von Video's 1972-1978', 1978.Book, ink, paper, 29.5 x 20.9 cm, publisher : ICC/Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerpen.
>Lili Dujourie, Koraal [Coral], 1978.Video, 00:06:23.
>Lili Dujourie, Zonder titel (Blauw naakt), 1980.Mixed Media, diaprojectie.
>Lili Dujourie, Passion de l'été pour l'hiver (Oostende), 1981.Video, 00:15:31.
>Lili Dujourie, Rood naakt, 1983.Photography, 45 x 45 cm.
>Lili Dujourie, The Kiss, 1986.Sculpture, wood, textiles, glass, silver, fluid, 432 x 102.5 x 244 cm.
>Francky Cane , Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Bilquin, Bram Bogart, Jan Burssens, Jacques Charlier, Willem Cole, Leo Copers, Franky DC, Raoul De Keyser, Paul Delvaux, Yves De Smet, Karel Dierickx, Lili Dujourie, James Ensor , Jean-Michel Folon, Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Octave Landuyt, Marc Maet, Marcel Maeyer, Frans Masereel, Danny Matthys, Jozef Mees, Luc Peire, Roger Raveel, Rita Reychler, Pjeroo Roobjee, Raoul Servais, Rik Slabbinck, Philippe Vandenberg, Ludwig Vandevelde, Philip Van Isacker, Paul Van Rafelghem, Dan Van Severen, Willy Van Sompel, Erik Verhal , Pierre Vlerick , Roger Wittevrongel , Maurice Wyckaert, Kunst & Leven: 80 KUNSTENAARS schenken een werk voor een POLIO-VRIJE WERELD, 1989.Invitation Card, print on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: A NON-U-MENTAL HISTORY OF M HKA – Part 3: Classical Rewind. 22 January 2022 - 23 April 2022.
> Exhibition: des Figures des Visages Regards sur la peinture d’après-guerre dans la collection Masurel. 27 September 2013 - 12 January 2014.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: DE INTERNATIONALE - Museum of Affects. 26 November 2011 - 29 January 2012.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Geel – Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna. 15 September 2018 - 04 November 2018.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Spirits of Internationalism. 21 January 2012 - 29 April 2012.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Bornem - Gedeelde Ruimte. 03 May 2014 - 25 May 2014.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Diest. 27 November 2014 - 21 December 2014.
> Exhibition: From Broodthaers to Braeckman – Photography in the Visual Arts in Belgium. 06 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
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> Exhibition: Kunst & Leven: 80 KUNSTENAARS schenken een werk voor een POLIO-VRIJE WERELD. 01 April 1989 - 08 April 1989.
> Exhibition: Museum in Motion. 16 September 2022 - 08 January 2023.
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> Exhibition: Museum in Motion - Lili Dujourie. 16 September 2022 - 08 January 2023.
> Exhibition: Sanguine/Bloedrood. Luc Tuymans on Baroque. 01 June 2018 - 16 September 2018.
> Exhibition: The Collection. 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.
> Exhibition: The collection II – Winter 2002. 23 November 2002 - 09 February 2003.
> Exhibition: The collection XXIX – Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European Collections 1956-1986. 20 January 2012 - 29 April 2012.
> Exhibition: The collection XXVIII – If you shoot a bullet in a vacuum, will it keep travelling forever? (Emily Wardill). 17 June 2011 - 18 September 2011.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: The Eightees – A Decade of Extremes. 17 June 2016 - 18 September 2016.
> Exhibition: Visite - Kunstenparcours 'Touching Textiles'. 28 September 2013 - 13 October 2013.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Lili Dujourie.
> Ensemble: Belgische kunst [Belgian Art].
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
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> Ensemble: Francky Cane - Invitations Group Exhibitions.
> Ensemble: GEWELD | VIOLENCE.
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> Ensemble: Hommage à....
> Ensemble: Middle Gate.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.